Dr Awan is Senior Lecturer in Mechanical & Automotive Engineering and Award Leader for MSc Automotive Engineering and MSc Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy Technologies within School of Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business. Dr Awan also has led MSc Aeronautical Engineering course at PG Level and BEng (Hons) General Engineering with a Foundation at UG level. Dr Awan has been involved in leading courses and modules across Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering at both UG and PG level since joining University of Staffordshire in 2015.
Dr Awan worked at the University of Birmingham for almost two years as Research Fellow (Post-doc) for Innovate UK’s Low Rolling Resistance Tyre Project (£1M) as lead researcher from UoB. Before joining UoB, Dr Awan was a visiting Researcher at SKF Engineering and Research Centre, Holland, during his fully funded PhD studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and conducted research on Innovative Hybrid Bearing project for special and severe operating conditions. Before joining Bournemouth University in January 2011, he also worked at the Centre for Fluid and Structure Mechanics in Pakistan for 4 years (2007-2011) as Manager (Technical) where he was leading and researching in the area of CFD and Structural Analysis projects.
Dr Awan has been a winner of the prestigious BU PhD Scholarship Award, JNU South Korea PhD Scholarship, Fully Funded Master Studies Scholarship at GIKI and UG Engineering Merit Scholarship at UET Peshawar. He has also been awarded generous funding and bursaries to travel USA, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, Holland and Austria for Conferences and Technical Courses.
Professional memberships and activities
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) – Engineering Council, UK
- Member (MIMechE) – Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
- Member (RE) – Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
- Fellow (FHEA) – Higher Education Academy, UK
Academic qualifications
- PhD Mechanical Engineering (Tribology) – Bournemouth University, UK
- PgCHPE – University of Staffordshire, UK
- MSc Mechanical Engineering (Distinction) – GIK Institute, Pakistan
- BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering (First Class) – UET Peshawar, Pakistan
Expertise
- Modelling and Simulation
- Structural Integrity
- Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics
Research interests
- Tyre Dynamics (Modelling, Analysis and Testing)
- Contact Mechanics and Structural Integrity
- Wear, Surface Analysis and Tribology
- Suspension Design and Analysis
- FE based simulation and Stress Analysis
Enterprise and commercial interests
- Modelling and Simulation
- Structural Integrity
- Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics
- Dynamics and Vibration
Teaching
Postgraduate
- Advanced Vehicle Dynamics and NVH (Module Leader) – Level 7
- Advanced Structural Analysis (Module Leader) – Level 7
Undergraduate
- Structures and FEA (Module Leader) – Level 6
- Vibration Analysis (Module Leader) – Level 6
- Advanced Solid Mechanics (Module Leader) - Level 6
- Vehicle Dynamics & NVH (Module Leader) - Level 5
- Mechanical Principles 3 (Module Leader) – Level 5
- Mechanical Principles 2 (Module Leader) – Level 4
- Engineering Principles (Module Leader) – Level 3
Publications
Recent Publications
- Performance Investigation of Active, Semi-Active and Passive Suspension Using Quarter Car ModelK Samaroo, AW Awan, S Marimuthu, MN Iqbal, K Daniel, N Shabbir, Algorithms 18 (2), 100, 2025
- Semi-active suspension design for an in-wheel-motor-driven electric vehicle using a dynamic vibration-absorbing structure and pid-controlled magnetorheological damperK Samaroo, AW Awan, S Islam, Machines 13 (1), 47, 2025
- Effects of tire operating conditions and reinforcement material and geometrical properties on tire cornering characteristics and rolling resistance, AW Awan, International Conference on Mechanical, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, (ICMAAE-25), 7th - 8th July 2025 | Helsinki, Finland
- Inaccuracies and Uncertainties for Harmonic Estimation in Distribution NetworksMN Iqbal, L Kütt, K Daniel, N Shabbir, A Amjad, AW Awan, M Ali, Sustainability 16 (15), 6523, 2024
- Effect of Curvature Shape on the Impact Strength of Additively Manufactured Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Parts Produced via Fused Deposition Modeling, F Fahad, W Raja, MN Iqbal, AW Awan, Design, 2024, MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/2411-9660/8/6/132
- Effects of tire reinforcement material properties and operating conditions on the tire cornering characteristics, AW Awan, International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, (MMIE 2024), Tokyo, Japan , 2024
- NACA 2412 Drag Reduction Using V-Shaped Riblets, SM Selvanose, S Marimuthu, AW Awan, K Daniel, Eng 5, 944-957, 2024
- Improving efficiency of micro gas turbine systems by integration of combustor and recuperator using additive manufacturing techniquesH Sheykhpoor, HG Darabkhani, AW Awan, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 127 (1), 23-44, 2023
Full List can be found on google scholar.